Elias Alexander (Pusser) Purser (abt. 1874 - abt. 1948)

Born about Nov 1874 in Union County, North Carolina, USA

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Died about 1948 at about age 73 in Gastonia, Gaston, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Elias was born in 1874.

Elias married Drucilla Tarlton on 25 Dec. 1895. She died about twenty years later. He than married Martha West on Oct. 29, 1919.

He passed away about 1948. Elias is buried in Westview Gardens Cemetery in Bessemer City, NC.

Sources

• Ancestry.com

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCXT-KHV : 19 August 2017), Elias A Purser in household of D R Purser, New Salem, Union, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district ED 216, sheet 476B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,984.

• "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99VV-3XS3?cc=1726957&wc=QD8P-6W5%3A1588773221%2C1588773853 : 19 July 2016), Union > Marriage licenses, 1891-1901 > image 355 of 889; North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML9F-7FD : accessed 1 February 2020), Elias A Pusser, Goose Creek, Union, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 121, sheet 10A, family 176, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1134; FHL microfilm 1,375,147.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZV6-9ZW : accessed 1 February 2020), Elias A Purser, Charlette Ward 5, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States; citing ED 148, sheet 14B, line 78, family 254, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1310; FHL microfilm 1,821,310.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X33S-RFL : accessed 1 February 2020), Elias A Purser, Gastonia, Gaston, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 24, sheet 1B, line 82, family 17, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1692; FHL microfilm 2,341,426.

See Also:

• "North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8CC-XKJ : 22 January 2020), Elias A. Pusser[sic], 1895. [Indexed as Pusser; review of image and other sources indicates surname was Purser.]